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peduncles very short, gray-puberulent, dividing into two short 
racemes, each about 8—10 flowered, the pedicels slender, about 12 
mm. long, slightly thickened upward and continuous with the 
calyx, which is sub-urceolate, enlarging in fruit, its tube 5-6 mm. in 
diameter, the teeth 5-6 mm. long, triangular, abruptly long-acumi- 
nate, the sinuses acute; corolla about 11 mm. long, 7 mm. broad 
(as pressed) cylindraceous, straight, manifestly ventricose, the 
mouth contracted, slightly 2-lipped, the teeth very small ; filaments 
inserted near the base, ribbon-shaped with broad base, much con- 
torted, the broadly reniform anthers coherent, white with broad 
red disk-like connective upon the back ; disk annular, the margin 
sub-entire; ovary depressed-ovoid, slightly ventricose, glabrous, 
the style stout, cylindrical, 8 mm. long, stigma capitate, dilated, 
2-lamellate; capsule 7 mm. broad, depressed-globose, tipped with 
the style-base; placentae 4, densely seminiferous all over, the 
seeds rust-brown, oval or oblong, straight, both ends contracted, 
but obtuse. 
Songo, Nov. .1890 (862). 
Besleria (?). My single flower deformed and eaten. 
Yungas, 1890 (544). 
BIGNONIACEAE. 
Tecoma sambucifolia H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 143. Vic. La Paz, 
10,000 ít. 1889 (7). 
ACANTHACEAE. 
Menvoncia LiNDAVII sp. n. 
Shrubby twiner, the older branches dark brown or blackish, 
sparsely bristly, conspicuously angled, greatly swollen and knotted 
at the nodes, the rest of the plant densely ferruginous; petioles 
stout, 5-8 mm. long (or longer?) the older apparently twining ; 
blades 7-11 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, ovate to broadly oval, the 
base rounded, the apex abruptly and finely acuminate, entire, 
above papillose-scabrous or strigose, beneath tomentose, mem ran- 
aceous, Coarsely reticulate, the principal veins. about 5 pairs; 
flowers solitary or geminate, the pedicels stout, enlarged upward, 
strongly angled, about 2 cm. long; mature bud 4 cm. long, I to 
nearly 1.5 cm. broad, very slightly curved, oblong or linear-oblong, 
the abruptly acuminate apex incurved or circinate, the bracts con- 
nate, in flower opening along one side, in fruit partly by the other 
side also, bearing a conspicuous rib; calyx 5 mm. broad, scarcely 
I mm. long, sinuately 5-lobed, glabrous; corolla red, glabrous, 
5 cm. long, nearly straight, the light colored tube about half its 
length, dilated near the base, the upper half moderately ventricose 
